Standards-based education

Students come out of a building, some with their hands in the air from relief, as a police officer looks on

TV show turns parents’ anxiety over college exams in China into entertainment

Education

“A Little Dilemma” follows two families in their different approaches to their children’s education, giving real families in China something to relate to and reflect upon.

Students at COSAT

School Year Blog: Are South African Schools ‘Just Pushing Black Students Through The System’?

Development & Education

Obama grants 10 states waivers from strictest provisions of No Child Left Behind

Global Politics

The education reform debate

Global Politics

Do Kids Need Homework?

New Report Reveals Half of Nation’s Schools Are Failing

Some new numbers about the No Child Left Behind Act paint a bleak portrait of the country’s education system. According to a report from the Center on Education Policy, 48 percent of the nation’s public schools did not meet No Child Left Behind’s requirements for “adequate yearly progress,” a percentage-based criteria for improvement set by […]

The World

Teachers: No More Apple Crapple

For our next redesign project, Studio 360 is giving schoolteachers a makeover.

The World

The Grit Scale: a new solution in the education debate

Lifestyle & Belief

Dominic Randolph, headmaster the Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, and Angela Duckworth, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the Grit scale, explain the Grit scale, and how to implement it effectively.

No Child Left Behind Laws Get Major Loophole

As one of the hallmark pieces of education legislation passed by President George W. Bush, The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 aimed to reform the American education system by giving schools standard and measurable goals that 100 percent of all students needed to meet. But, by promising to leave no child behind, did […]

The World

Navajos Camp Out Against Coal

Navajo Elders in New Mexico say they’ve seen enough coal for one lifetime.